Search for Naturalist World View v1 - Couverture souple

Shimony

 
9780521377447: Search for Naturalist World View v1
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0521377447 ISBN 13 : 9780521377447
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

This two-volume 1993 collection of his essays written over a period of forty years explores the interrelations between science and philosophy.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Abner Shimony is one of the most eminent of present-day philosophers of science, whose work has exerted a profound influence in both the philosophy and physics communities. This two-volume 1993 collection of his essays written over a period of forty years explores the interrelations between science and philosophy. Shimony regards the knowing subject as an entity in nature whose faculties must be studied from the points of view of evolutionary biology and empirical psychology. He maintains that the twentieth century is one of the great ages of metaphysics, given the deep implications of quantum mechanics, relativity theory and molecular biology. Nevertheless he rejects the thesis that mentality is entirely explicable in physical terms and argues that mind has a fundamental place in nature. Though distinguishing between values and scientifically established facts, Shimony holds that the sense of wonder cultivated by the natural sciences is one of the noblest of human values.

Revue de presse

Winner 1996 Lakatos Award

"This collection of papers is an admirable contribution to the study of nature and of how we aquire knowledge of it. Shimony's work is an important model for how these investigations ought to be carried out." The Philosophical Review

"There is so much to be learned and savored in these two volumes that my goal here has not been to 'summarize' Abner Shimony's Oeuvres, but to entice the reader into perusing this collection of masterfully written essays." American Journal of Physics

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521377447
ISBN 13 
9780521377447
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
352
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Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521373522 ISBN 13 :  9780521373524
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1993
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